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Avenal, California

Kings County · Population 13,696 · Card no. 10023

A west valley town in oil country, whose population is dominated by a state prison.

Avenal State Prison holds several thousand inmates and is counted in the city's total.
The name is Spanish for oat field.
Oil was discovered in the Kettleman Hills nearby in 1928.

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